Taking Two Steps Forward
Your future is now arriving...
Twenty years ago I was in graduate school studying AI, and we used to joke that the research we were doing would never be relevant in our lifetimes. It would be our children’s children who would reap the benefits we saw even in those early days of AI.
Fast forward 20 years and AI has already arrived. It’s shaping not just technology, but business, politics and how we live our lives.
The internet changed how we work and mobile changed how we live but AI is something different. It’s moving so quickly to change the very foundation of how we do everything and doing so in ways we don’t yet understand.
Consider:
AI codegen tools are replacing highly paid software engineers, a profession that has been stable and lucrative for over two decades. This is happening so fast that college CS majors who just 18 months ago could expect a few lucrative offers at graduation are finding themselves unemployed.
AI has enabled cheating in schools, interviews and everywhere else at a level never seen before. It’s become so bad that it’s not even clear if you’re talking to a real person or a foreign spy during a job interview.
AI companies are the fastest growing companies in history, with companies going from zero to hundreds of millions in revenue in just 12 months and raising multi-billion dollar seed rounds.
And these are just the changes we see today. Tomorrow the more subtle changes will take hold and we’ll see more transformation of everything we do.
I’m lucky enough to work on the front lines of this transformation, and Two Steps Forward is where I’ll share what I’m seeing and what I think it means. If you disagree, I’d love to hear from you in the comments, or just reply to the email.
It’s time to take two steps forward…
